Chapter 11:
Luffy, Arya, and Usopp were running through the forest. The mountains on the other side looked larger and larger the closer they got to them.
The trees were getting closer together and the paths between them were becoming thinner. Usopp could barely keep up with the rubber man swinging from branches and the girl jumping over roots. There were so many obstacles that the long nosed pirate stubbed his toe or bumped his head every few feet.
"Bran!" Arya yelled and cupped her mouth.
"Come back I wanna pet your wolf!" Luffy yelled and swung from another branch.
Arya's mind was racing with different reasons for Bran to be here. She ruled out the possibility that he was dead, but there were still negative outcomes that could be why he's here. What is this place anyway? She looked around at the normal trees all around her. The sunlight was seeping through the branches and lot up the forest floor in rays of gold light.
They were approaching a large gap in two trees where they could see a lot of light on the other side of it. "We're, almost, there," Usopp panted from a few yards behind the others.
GRRRR
The sharpshooter lost his footing and tumbled forward into a tree that Arya and Luffy stopped next to. The two of them were looking to the right where the loud, bloodthirsty growl came from. "Wh-Wh-What was that?" Usopp whispered.
The trees nearest them on the left creaked and something pushed between them. It had an orange head with black stripes and four large legs below its torso. It had a long tail behind it that split off into two halfway back, and it's mouth was in a deep snarl with rows of sharp white teeth showing.
The thing growled at Usopp and the man screamed, "Eeeeaaaoooww!"
The scream echoed through the forest and a young boy riding his wolf not far ahead snapped his head backwards. Arya!
Luffy jumped forward and punched at the strange tiger, but the animal was fast. It jumped over his fist and towards the man with the long nose who dove to the right. While Usopp rolled out of the way, the two tailed tiger swiped its paw and slashed into a tree. The claws dug several inches into the wood and sliced through it easily.
Usopp's face turned blue and Arya pulled out the sword she was lent. It was too big for her and uncomfortably heavy to carry around, but she lifted it in front of her and charged at the beast attacking her friend. The monster looked ready to pounce on the escaping Usopp when it turned its head to the girl coming at it.
Luffy saw it look at Arya and he bent his legs to pump himself into Second Gear. Before he had the chance to jump in and save her, a shadow jumped in front of the pirate and then in between the scared girl and the tiger that was pouncing at her.
The girl didn't realize how scared she was until she made eye contact with the beast. It was a man eater and a killer and as it pounced at her, she fell backwards in fear. She lifted her sword above her and closed her eyes, but it never fell on her.
Arya opened her eyes and they went wide as she stared at two large furry hind legs. She lifted her head more and saw the long white tail with gold fur on the top and then she saw him. He was right on top of the wolf with black hair behind his head going down past his shoulders. It started out straight but got curlier and messier the farther down his back it went.
The child on the wolf ignored the two pirates on either side of him and turned his head to the side. Out of the corner of his eye he saw his sister okay and standing up. Good, he looked back at the angry tiger that was around the same size as his direwolf.
The pirates looked back and forth between the wolf and the tiger. They were having a stare down, but the boy riding the wolf suddenly dropped his head down. He looked like he just fell unconscious and Arya shouted his name.
The orange beast lost the furious snarl on its face and closed its mouth. It looked past the direwolf that no longer seemed on guard and at Arya behind it. The girl made eye contact with the passive tiger and then it turned and ran off.
The others were all confused at what was going on and they looked to the top of the direwolf where the boy was sitting without moving. "Bran! Bran!"
"What's wrong with him?" Usopp asked as they moved closer. The wolf didn't seem to think they were hostile and bent it's legs, lying on the ground with the boy still on it.
Arya moved closer and looked at the wolf, "Summer?" She asked and the wolf lifted its head a little. "You're so big," she reached her hand in and scratched the left ear of the huge direwolf. Its head was almost as tall as she was when it was lying down and she looked at her brother on top of it. "Bran, why are you here?"
The boy's head was pointed down, but it lifted a little and the girl and the pirates standing in front of Summer's head looked in his eyes. They were rolled back and all they could see were the whites of his eyes. Then, they snapped back to normal and he stared at them.
He looked at the man in the straw hat and the one with the scratches all over his face. Finally his eyes stopped on the girl right in front of his wolf's mouth and he looked in her eyes. "It's been," he whispered and he was surprised he even recognized her, "so long."
"It really is you," Arya whispered and the pirates were ready to see another heartfelt reunion like Arya and Jon had. "What are you doing so far north? How did you get here? Why-"
The boy held up a hand and she was silent. His wolf stood up and started walking back out of the edge of the woods where he pirates were heading before. "I knew you were coming," he muttered as his pet walked through the trees and they followed. He didn't try to run this time, he didn't want to leave them alone here.
Their eyes went huge at the clearing they walked into. There was a large hill with a huge weirwood tree on it and before the top of that hill, there was a small lake with a waterfall that went into it. On every side were beautiful features of the perfect forest. "How could you have known?" Arya asked, thinking that her arrival here would have been a shock to him.
"I dreamt it," he responded. "Now, it's time to say goodbye," he added.
"What?!" Arya yelled and ran over and climbed up on Summer's fur. The wolf looked at her but didn't react to the girl climbing up and standing on its back. She glared down at her brother, "What do you mean by that? I just got here, I'm not saying goodbye!"
"Not to you," the boy said and his wolf jumped up in the air. Arya wasn't ready for the sudden jolt and dropped down, putting her arms around her brother to help her stay on. Summer jumped on top of one rock and then to another one higher up, and then to the top of the waterfall.
Usopp stared up and had no idea how to get there. Luffy was ready though and wrapped an arm around Usopp and then around a rock at the top of the falls and threw them up there. The sharpshooter screamed the whole time and when they landed he hit Luffy for not warning him before doing that.
When he hit Luffy, the captain didn't respond, he was staring forward in too much awe. Usopp looked up past the edge of the top of the waterfall. There was a stream leading up and curving around the left of the strange hill, but they were staring at the tree at the top.
From the bottom they couldn't really admire the tree's magnitude. It was huge. Not only that, but the tree was beautiful. The orange and red leaves matched the sun going over the mountains around them. It was a magnificent sight and they all whispered, "Whoa," including the girl sitting behind Bran.
The two children on Summer's back rode up the hill towards the tree. Arya looked down the other side of the hill when they were close and she saw a tunnel in the ice wall of the closest mountain. It wasn't too large, but there was a green glow coming from the darkness inside. There were also scorch marks all over the edge of the tunnel and she had no idea what had happened there.
"Brandon Stark," a low voice called out and everyone walking up the hill stopped. Usopp and Luffy were watching from behind the wolf and Arya looked at the tree from on Summer's back.
The tree was so large that there was a gap between the trunks towards the bottom. It led inside the tree and walking out of the dark hole, was a small child. Whoever it was was smaller than both Arya and Bran, but there was someone behind the small boy too.
The boy was dressed in rags and had short messy black hair on top of his head. The person walking out of the tree made Usopp stumble back from his appearance. It was a tall man with a long white beard. He had pale white skin and he was wearing old black withered armor that looked ready to break at the slightest touch. The most prominent feature on his whole body though, was his sole red eye in the center of his face.
"I did it," the boy on his wolf said, though he didn't sound too happy about it.
"Yes, you did," the man replied.
"Meera, she died," the boy looked angrily at the old man, "I didn't see it coming. Why?"
The old man with one red eye responded, "You do not always see what you wish to see. You see what you need to see."
The boy looked back at the man in the straw hat for a few seconds. He looked back at the old man and said, "I'm leaving now. I won't be here if they come back."
"When they come back," the man corrected, "you will know." He didn't have the same doubt that whoever this 'they' was were going to return.
The man's red eye flicked to the girl on the wolf's back, "I have been watching you as well, Arya Stark." His eye turned down and saw the men standing behind the wolf. "And you, Monkey D. Luffy. You have all been through much and lost what is precious to you."
Usopp thought about his fingers and his Kabuto. Luffy thought about his dream to become the King of the Pirates and his eyes snapped wide, "Wait, old man! Do you know how long it will take for the Log to..."
"You will never get back to the journey you traveled before," the man said, cutting off the captain. "But your adventure now will be greater than you could have imagined."
The original sadness that appeared on the pirate's face went away at the sound of that. "Really?!"
The old man nodded and they saw the little boy who ran out first come up alongside Bran's wolf. The old one-eyes guy looked at the child and nodded. The boy held out his hand and a ball of fire appeared on it.
Luffy's eyes went wide and he and Usopp panicked for a second. If this kid could use fire, that meant that Ace was...
"This is not your brother's power," the old man said out loud as if he was reading Luffy's thoughts. If someone else had his devil fruit that would mean he was dead, so it was good clarification.
"Then how?" Usopp started but the child holding the fireball turned and threw it at the ice wall behind them leading into the mountains. It exploded and the ice crumbled on top of the tunnel that led into the mountain.
Bran nodded to the two in front of him and then pat Summer on top of his head. The wolf turned around and started jogging away and the pirates turned and followed the boy. The old man at the tree behind them called back, "Don't forget Brandon Stark. You will fly."
Luffy, Arya, and Usopp turned back but when they did, there was no one at the top of the hill. The man and the strange child were gone.
"Hey you," Luffy said to the boy riding the wolf as they jogged next to it. The boy didn't turn his way but his eyes darted to the side. "How'd you make that small tiger run away? I once saw Shanks do something like that with a big sea monster."
"That tiger wasn't small!" Usopp yelled at his captain. "It was as big as this wolf right here!" He pointed at the wolf and moved his hand up and down for emphasis.
"Back on my home island there was one four times the size of that one," Luffy held up three fingers when he said it and the others sweatdropped.
"Bran," Arya grabbed her brother by the shoulders and the boy looking forward on his wolf pulled on Summer's neck scruff. The wolf slowed down and stopped and he turned and faced her. She lifted a hand and touched the left side of his face where there was a scratch that looked fresh on it. The scab was definitely new and she ran a finger over it. "What happened before we got here?"
Whatever caused her brother to come this far north wasn't that important to her. He was here, and he did something for that old man. He got hurt himself and his friend died doing it. "Tell me Bran, I'm your sister."
"I should have seen it coming," the boy whispered and then he started talking. It was a long story, but he'd been with people the whole time. He spoke to people on his entire journey. It was only the last two weeks he was alone. He started in a quiet tone, "I met her with her brother Jojen..."
FLASHBACK
"Meera!" Bran yelled and his eyes tripled in size. He stared ahead at the girl with the trident made of ice stabbing through her chest. Two of the three spikes were coming out of her chest covered in blood.
The girl gurgled for a second and then her eyes met the boy right in front of her. She looked down from where she was being held up by the trident, and her mouth formed into a smile. "Do it," she whispered, "while I have him occupied."
The boy shook his head furiously and had tears in the corners of his eyes. He was lying on the ground with blood coming out of a scratch on his face and his wolf was whimpering behind him also hurt. "Please Bran," Meera said again and her eyes looked around the ice room. "Don't do it for me, do it for your brother, Rickon. You don't want them to make it all the way down below the Wall and get him, do you? Do it for your sisters, Sansa and Arya. After you save them here, go back and save them for real. Don't die up here without anyone to-" the girl speaking coughed up blood as the white walker pulled its trident from her back.
Bran stared at the girl's body as it hit the floor, "Just do it Bran," she said desperately. "Don't let my brother's life be in vain. Do it!"
The child lying on his stomach behind her rose up a hand through the tears spilling down his face. The white walker saw what he was doing and opened its ice blue eyes wide, but Bran was faster than it. The large fireball that appeared in his hand flew forward and hit the white walker. "Dragon's fire," he whispered.
As the flames were about to hit the walker, the girl below it smiled at him. "I love you, Bran," she whispered and then her body was engulfed in the explosion that killed her killer. The white walker was dead, but so so was she.
The boy stared at the fire and then around the room. The hundreds of zombies surrounding him on all sides stopped moving. They didn't lose their orders, they lost their powers in total. All of the wights dropped to the floor and Bran watched as they dropped in a wave around them until they were all dead for real.
He stared back forward at the dragon's flame that was spreading around the floor. It touched the ice pillars in the middle of the room and instantly shot up them. The whole room started shaking and Bran looked out at the open sections in the walls that led outside. The mountain was coming down above him and he saw huge chunks of ice and rocks fall into the doorways and block him inside.
"Meera," he whispered and stared at the burnt body of his friend. He put so much strength into the attack because he didn't want her to feel much pain. It now seemed like he put in too much though, and there was no escape from the ice fortress as the supports holding up the room were coming down.
Without any exits, it seemed like all hope was lost and Bran's direwolf Summer limped forward from the wall where it had been stabbed by a few wights before they collapsed. "Come here boy," Bran whispered and the wolf lay down next to his master's body, his fur keeping him warm. "I'm sorry I brought you here."
"Brandon Stark..." the voice came from behind him and both he and Summer turned back and looked at the solid ice wall behind them. It was melting fast and the ice chunks falling from the ceiling made it hard for them to see, but a bright yellow light came out of the wall and over to the boy and his direwolf.
The golden light fell on Summer and Bran watched as it surrounded his wolf's legs. The direwolf stood up without injuries anymore and it could walk fine. Summer looked down at his master and then at the melted hole in the wall gleaming with bright yellow light, much more inviting than the green deathtrap they were stuck in. Bran didn't need to invade his wolf's mind to get them out of there, Summer knew to do it himself and grabbed Bran with his teeth, tossing the boy on his back.
Bran held on as tight as he could as Summer ran into the light-filled tunnel. He looked back one last time at the burnt remains of the girl he loved, and then a huge section of the ceiling came crashing down, filling the room he was just in.
End Flashback
"That was the last time I ever saw her," the boy said and clenched his fists and his eyes shut. "It wasn't even a week ago." He left out the part when she told him she loved him, but he told them the gist of what had happened.
For once, Luffy didn't fall asleep during the story and he was staring wide-eyed at the child. Magic?! He knows magic?! Luffy felt bad for the kid's story, but he was really interested in this fireball power the kid had, and how he could talk to animals, and why he was here in the first place. Usopp was just as amazed as his captain, but it was Arya who moved first.
The girl reached her arms around her brother's back and hugged him on top of Summer. The boy's fists unclenched a little and his eyes opened wide at the touch. "You're not alone anymore Bran," she said, "let's go home."
The boy turned his head to the side and saw the two pirates smile up at him. "Yeah! You can come on my ship and show me how to do that fireball thing!"
Bran looked at them and then back at his younger sister who was still hugging him. These pirates seemed older than them, but they acted like kids. He, kind of liked that. "I don't know if I'll be able to do that," he said and didn't think he'd be able to teach anyone with the limited amount of training he had. "In truth, I didn't think I was going to have to fight so soon, but Bloodraven said the Night's King was dead and only one of his Lieutenants remained. It was the perfect time before any more white walkers could be made."
"The Night's King?" Luffy asked. The group started to move again, but Summer was walking in a slow trot so the pirates on his left could keep up. They went back towards the woods and Bran explained that the Night's King was the leader of the white walker army.
Both pirates and the girl sitting behind Bran tensed up for a second and Luffy said, "That's the guy I fought."
"And I killed," Usopp added on proudly, having shot the Gaon Hou that incinerated almost the entire white walker army.
Arya glared at the two pirates on their left and they closed their mouths. They were the ones responsible for making Bran fight the commander and lose his friend, but the boy wasn't mad like Arya thought he'd be. Instead he smiled at them, "Thank you. I don't think I ever would have been able to take them all on my own. I could barely defeat one..." he trailed off.
"That's still amazing though," Usopp said, seriously impressed by the kid. "I saw what those guys could do, it was terrifying."
Luffy nodded and agreed, saying that the Night's King just wouldn't stay down. Bran didn't seem to care about their encouragement, thanking them for their kind words with a straight face. He was a very serious kid and though a few years younger than the male pirates next to him, he was very mature compared to the pirates swinging around in the trees they walked through.
"AAAaaaAAAaaaAAA!" Luffy and Usopp called out as they swung across the vines. Running through the first time, they were looking for Bran, so they didn't get to enjoy the forest in its entirety. This time was different though and they were having a lot more fun.
Usopp grabbed onto a vine and swung across a large tree root below him, about to shout again. His voice came out as a girly scream though as the huge spider hiding under the root jumped up at him. He recoiled his legs fast enough to get away from the large spider, but it wasn't alone.
The two pirates dropped out of the trees and Usopp ran behind his captain who was holding his right bicep while the spiders approached. "I'll take you all on!" Luffy yelled and got ready for a fight.
"No," Bran stated and his wolf jumped forward next to Luffy. The pirate was annoyed this kid was trying to tell him what to do, "For one, there is no reason to fight and kill these creatures."
"But they're trying to kill us!" Usopp yelled, still cowering at the size of the spiders. They were ghostly white with green faces and green line patterns on their backs. Their eight eyes were menacing on their two feet tall bodies and their legs were long around them. They all stopped moving when the boy on top of the wolf looked their way.
"There is no point in killing them if you aren't going to eat them," the boy said angrily. He was a warg, and the more he became one with the animals, the more he felt sorry for them when they were killed. "Secondly, the poison in their fangs is deadly enough to kill you in under a minute. You didn't look like you were going to be careful when you fought them."
Luffy lowered his fist for a second, a sweat bead rolling down his face at the aspect that he almost died, having aimed directly for the face of the closest spider in front of him. The boy on his wolf stared at the spiders for a few seconds and then waved his hand to the right. "I don't always have to take control of their bodies," he explained as the spiders scurried away. "That tiger is particularly nasty, but most animals listen naturally."
"You can talk to them?" his sister asked in amazement.
"It's not so much talking," the boy replied. "I feel what I want to do, I think it, and they respond as if I'm one of their own. As if I'm their leader."
"Awesome," Luffy and Usopp stretched out in unison.
The boy tilted his head, "Really? You don't think it's weird?"
"No way!" Usopp crossed his arms. "That's a cool power!"
The boy looked at them to see if they were lying, but both men really seemed amazed and he smiled. The group reached the shore again and the other two groups were already waiting for them.
"How did you guys know to go back to the ship?" Arya asked. She thought they would all still be looking for Bran.
"It was weird," Nami responded and looked back from the hill she was waiting at. "A strange tiny mammal-like creature led us back through the woods."
Chopper was in a group with Zoro and Robin and he spoke up, "The one that led us back at the same time said to wait here and you guys would be back soon."
The three with Bran looked up at the boy in wonder, they had no idea when he sent those animals. The boy nodded at the creatures' good work getting everyone together and he smiled at the crew gathered around him. "Now," he said with a small smile, "shall we go get Jon?"
The fact that the boy somehow knew about their arrangement with Jon barely surprised them. He was alone at the top of the world riding a huge direwolf, and now some of them knew he had been fighting the white walkers as well and had magic powers.
"So he's on the crew now too?" Sanji asked their captain in the straw hat.
"Uh-huh," Luffy nodded. The crew smiled and were about to start introducing themselves to the boy when he spoke loudly.
"Hold on tight," Bran said to his sister who had her hands clutching the wolf's fur. She looked at his back in surprise but decided to listen and wrapped her arms around his front and crossed them over his chest. The boy's wolf knew exactly what he wanted and charged forward.
The Straw Hats were about to dive out of the way from the charging wolf, when it sprang off its front and back legs and stretched them out in front and behind it as it soared over their heads. This must be what it's like for people who watch the Coup de Burst, Franky thought in awe as the wolf carrying the children flew over their heads and arced through the air over the Thousand Sunny.
Summer landed on the grass deck and started walking around it calmly before finding a nice spot to lay down near the swings. The Stark boy turned his head to Arya and he wasn't smiling like he was in front of the pirates. "I know everything," he whispered to her. "I've had dreams," he said as he lifted his legs up so he was facing the back of his wolf.
"Wh-What?" she asked him. He always called her his younger sister, even though she was a year older than him, and he treated her that way.
Bran put his hands on his sister's shoulders, "I had a dream after dad died, I knew it had happened. I saw what happened to Robb and Mom. I know you were in Braavos..." the girl's eyes were getting wider with everything he said. Then his eyes went completely dark, "and I know what's happening to Sansa right now."
The pirates were getting back on the ship and saw the brother and sister looking at each other really close on top of the wolf and talking to each other. Nami called out that they should enjoy the sun while it lasted because they were about to head back into the snow. It was a long way back to the other side of Westeros, and they were on a tight schedule.
A lot of them moaned, but they started getting to work right away. Robin was walking up to the second floor deck, enjoying the last time she'd walk on the grassy deck until it was again covered in snow. As she was walking past the children, she heard the younger boy say something absolutely horrific and it made her flinch as she kept walking, pretending not to hear it. A man with no skin raping their sister? What kind of dream is that? These kids really need someone to watch over them... we'll fill that role, and I'll have to have a long conversation with Commander-san when he joins us from the Wall.
A/N Bran Stark joins the team! Another chapter down, and this pirate ship is just filling with Starks. I hope you liked Bran's small backstory tidbit. It didn't explain everything that happened since Bran came this far north, or Hodor's death, but I felt it was important to have some sort of an idea what he'd been doing up here. His powers from the show have only gotten stronger since we've last seen him: being able to stop animals from attacking like Jojen did with Summer and being able to control them more freely, and also his dreams are more vivid and frequent probably with the help of Bloodraven. Also, FIREBALLS! Of course it'd be the first thing he was taught, I mean, who wouldn't want to learn how to use fireball magic after the end of the fourth season?! Think I got it all, I hope you enjoyed the chapter, oh! And Meera and Bran became more than just friends?! Maybe that was the first time she even said 'I love you' or maybe they were passionate lovers... doubtful. XD I'll leave that much to you to decide for yourselves, now time for reviews:
thunder18
Great chapter Update soon
A chapter a day... you know the rest XD!
Bobboky
Nice.
NICE.
Mazzax
Bran, why you be running? So if Bran joins the crew, I'm guessing he'd be lookout. This oasis actually seems like it'd be a brilliant place for them to find a Devil Fruit. Since so few people would go there, it would explain why nobody knows about them.
Took him a while to get back through that tunnel, and then he made Meera a grave, could've buried something of hers or whatever. Then he had to go tell Lord Bloodraven that his ride had arrived. How much does he know of the Straw Hats? Is he super OP with his powers (overpowered, not One Piece ;p)? The oasis Devil Fruit thing would be cool, if I had thought about it earlier... Already six chapters forward rn, but Devil Fruits are coming in as I write the new one and edit this old chapter at the same time! Thanks for the review!
Erin
Great chapter! I can't wait for the next one :)
Thank you.
Guest
Bran! Ooh! Arya just needs to collect all of them!
STARKS! Gotta catch em all! A big family reunion being planned somewhere in the near future... eh eh... I'm looking forward to one!
Guest
So I take it Bran and lord Bloodraven don't know about the destruction of the white walkers yet? I can't wait to see their reaction, i don't know if you read the books but if you have then you should know that lord Bloodraven is actually a 100 year old bastard-born Targaryean prince and brother of maester Aemon Targaryean , he later became hand of the king and the 996th commander of the nights watch before going beyond the wall and becoming a green seer. Also may I suggest Zoro gain a valyrian steel sword. It only makes sense after all. :D
Nope! Lol, creepy red eyes guy new the Night's King was dead right away, cuz, well he's creepy. I did look up a little about him which is why my description of him more matches the books than the weird old guy at the end of season 4. There was one White Walker Commander left, and he rallied the troops from Hardhome and all the wights around back to their ice fortress, only to find small children had come to defeat them. Bran wins, but loses Meera in the process and barely escapes with his life. Hope you enjoyed it! For Zoro, I wonder how Jon Snow would find some Valyrian steel to make them swords, though I am putting in Devil Fruits which should be even more rare, so who knows. Thanks for the review!
Sage chapter 10 . 21h ago
PS.
I notice you said you appreciate criticism but I'm not seeing you doing anything about them. You keep portraying the OP world in a bad light in favor of GOT.
You undermine OP from the way characters act and react, to the fast power difference. no one in the world of GOT is a match for the majority of the SHs, the only one that GOT can beat without an army of hundreds or thousands is the weak trio, the immense physical speed and the fast physical power is HUGE. Of course this does not apply to strategy or tactics, the GOT has got them beat in that aspect but the fast power difference is to big for them to compensate with tactics and strategy. the overwhelming sense of loyalty the SHs have for each other, would also weaken the GOT tactics and strategy.
Which saddens me cuz it feels like you only truly care about the reviewers that praise you cuz you keep doing it.
by the way Zoro has been using shishi sonson since at least Alabasta arc.
So far, there haven't been any times when the majority of Straw Hats haven't been able to take on any foes in the GOT world that had an army of less than hundreds or thousands, besides the Night's King. You've never seen the guy fight, so you can make assumptions that he's not as strong as Luffy, but I made the assumption the other way. Luffy would've kicked that tiger's ass, but he probably would've died from spider poison if Bran wasn't there. Now I keep writing my story this way not because of the way reviewers react, but because this is the way it was written down far before you reviewed. A well-critisized review that I agreed with that you leave in chapter six won't actually affect the story until maybe chapter 12 or 13, because that's how far ahead I was when I posted it. Occasionally the review will change my view completely on an issue, and I will edit the next chapter to adapt with it, but not often. In order to keep up fast updates, I keep writing all the time, so don't say I don't take criticism into consideration, because you'll see less of the Straw Hats being disturbed by GOT style stuff, which was a main criticism of a lot of reviews. However, for example if Shireen gets burned alive: whether they hear about it, stop it, or watch it themselves, they're going to be horrified and disturbed by the fact that not only was the young girl screaming for her dad to help while he watched, but that he ordered it in the first place. Now after that rant, I'd still like to thank you for the review, because it really does seem like you're trying to help, even though I disagree with a lot you say.
Danriver
Me again just want to tell you that this story is going somewhere. This story is exciting as A Spartan in Westeros Story. Have you read it? It has potential but no updates.:( Keep up the good work!
Checked out that story and it looked pretty cool. I never would've thought putting Halo and GOT together, but it could be cool. Thanks! The Going Around the North arc is in full swing and I think there's one more chapter up here, maybe two.
GR
exploratory chapter? just check the wiki a few days ago, quite suprise that Jon die. as for DF, maybe someone just ate it from a very long time ago and did't notice the side effect, from wiki the time line of GoT and OP is pretty much scale the same with the oldest being-5000 yrs
JON SNOW NOOOO! How can he get out of this one, read a few more chapters to find out! DF's are a rarity in this world, even on Grand Line islands there aren't usually a ton of people with them, but maybe that will change... or something. Don't want to give anything away so I'll just say thanks!